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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s okay to politely tell someone not to tell you how to feed your child, regardless of their sincerity or intentions. [/quote]

Giving someone who you know plans to pump and bottle feed a gift related to pumping and bottle feeding is not "telling you how to feed your child."

OP's emotions are high because she is postpartum.  I'm not blaming her.  But the answer to the question of "am I overreacting" is yes.  She is.  We can be compassionate about the fact that she's postpartum, and also respect her by telling her the truth. She is overreacting.  [/quote]

Agree.  Also think it is smart to have some on land and to have a bag in the freezer.  What happens if you get sick?  What happens if you have an accident or God forbid your relative has an accident and you need to go to hospital to be with them?  It’s really smart to get baby accustomed to taking a bottle in an emergency.  And you don’t want to be running out and shopping for bottles at that point.  I always even kept that tin of formulae they have you at the hospital in case anything happened to me — at least my spouse could feed baby and they wouldn’t have to run out to grocery store while dealing with whatever emergency or illness prevented me from BFing.  If you are into staying home 12 weeks you really should try to get baby used to bottle soon.  With my first, I had my husband do one bottle a week thinking that would be okay.  It was not enough and my first week back at work was rough with my baby doing a daily hunger strike, crying all day and keeping me up all night to eat.  
I breast fed my three for almost 2 years each.

My word of kind advice is that you should be open to advice and suggestions from other moms.  It isn’t a judgement or criticism on you as a mom.  None of us got a degree in motherhood — we can read the parenting books and talk to doctors but one of the best ways to learn is from people who have been there and done that.  That’s not to say that their way is best or better than your way, but it really helps to be open to other Ellie saying “it’s a good idea to….” Or “what worked to me was…” or “I made a real mistake by not…..”.  I don’t know why so many women are threatened by other women sharing advice.  [/quote]

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